Comments posted by seikima from United States, January 17, 2005:
["Sonic" is different media each time. this time i received: LONGTEN001 = gray spindle-base, white disc-stopper, TWP sticker on top of cake-box] -
says it can be burned at 4X but i get an error: 'Drive Reported an error. Sense Key=MEDIUM ERROR Sense Code= 0x73, 0x03' each time i try. 1X/2X-only is recommended.

Additional information:

Price: $0.1 Purchased from: www.shop4tech.com ($18.00 per 100) Date purchased: January 2005 Burnt with Pioneer DVR-108 / DVR-A08 at 2x using firmware 1.14. Burning reliability is Mixed. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Mixed. Console reliability is Poor. Media color is White. Media text is no text ('white star' on stacking ring). Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 50. Media made in Taiwan. Media UPC/EAN code is N/A. Authoring/Burning comments:Macintosh: ripping with MacTheRipper 2.6, burning with Roxio Toast 6.0.7 Works fine on Apex AD-1500Works fine on JVC XV-N44SLDoes not work on Apex AD-703ADoes not work on Panasonic DMR-E80HDoes not work on Sony Playstation 2

Comments posted by geospart from United States, September 27, 2004:
The media works in The following
- records in Lite On 5005 standalone recorder
- plays in Mintek player
- has issues with sylvania 803

Additional information:

Price: $0.5 Purchased from: Shop4Tech.com Burnt with Lite-On LVW-5005 at 2x Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Mixed. DVD reliability is Mixed. Media color is White. Media text is None/White Topped Printable. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 50. Media made in Taiwan. Media UPC/EAN code is N/A. Authoring/Burning comments:No Option for this but also used a toshiba R-5112
using Nero 6 for data and video dvd's and 3.2 both worked fine... Works fine on Lite-On LVW-5005Works fine on Mintek DVD-1500Does not work on Sylvania SSD803

Comments posted by SS3 from United States, August 12, 2004:
This media is quite unreliable. After finding out about a program called DVDInfoPro! I decided to recheck some of these discs for reliability. I had spent a short time burning disc after disc without verification or watching any of the movies.

So far I've tested 12 burned discs, 4 of which have reported many errors in the Read Error Test.

Two discs showed read errors that recovered upon retry often. These are okay but not perfect.

The rest seemed good. These are the ones I've actually tested, I've thrown away 5-8 discs that I was watching and the movie turned out unreadable half way thru. I don't recommend this media at all. It was inexpensive but now I will have to redo a bunch of Sopranos backups.

Comments posted by popeye1497 from United States, July 11, 2004:
As everyone mentioned, thise media is not worth the time or money. Burns ok but frezzes towards the end of movies, on everyone one. You are better off spending more on something better known then this.

Comments posted by SS3 from United States, July 06, 2004:
Bought 100 of these discs. Burn them at 4x, majority of them turn out okay. Originally I was burning with CloneDVD2 and they compelte successfully but upon playback 4-5 discs were skipping or becoming unreadable near the end of the films. I started burning with Nero because of the verify option and had 6-7 fail to verify. I've burned this media at 1x 3 times, all three times it was unreadable even though it was labeled a 1x disc. Not recommended for storing very important info. Accidentally bought thermal printable discs. =(

Comments posted by flashman from United States, May 15, 2004:
NEC 2500A firmware hacked 1.7 beta. APEX 2600 DVD player. Just ordered and got the NEC and hacked it. Now it reports x8 for these disks - shop4tech's rated x1 SONIC media, whitetops. Haven't burnt much on them yet, only one, and that was a movie off my old 1300A. APEX 2600 wouldn't ID it - NO DISK on the LED.

Comments posted by Alan from United States, May 05, 2004:
Suck the first or second disc work but after that more of them had problems. DVDinfo read error at the earilest 2% never get beyond 25%. Will not work in PS2, problem playing in (Sinsonic, AMW and Panasonic DVD players). Save your $ and buy something else. Got these from shop4tech.com.

Comments posted by Nick from United States, March 29, 2004:
Burn fine on Pioneer 103 with 2.0 firmware, hard to get to play on my Denon DVD-2900, usually have to insert several times before the player will read the disc.

Additional information:

Burnt with Pioneer DVR-103 / DVR-A03 at 2x using firmware 2.0. Burning reliability is Good. PC reliability is Good. DVD reliability is Mixed. Media color is Silver. Media text is none. Media package type is Cake Box. Number of discs 50. Does not work on Denon DVD-2900

Comments posted by Jamie Yates from United States, March 06, 2004:
Fails completely to burn at any speed.

Comments posted by Tmpsth2k2 from United States, February 25, 2004:
Super Cheap from shop4tech.com with 10% off coupon (weekly10). $41 for 100 free shipping. Through it did took them 1 week before they decided to ship it to me. 4x burn on them works on my xbox just perfect.

These are cheap disc, so I will not burn anything of any long term value on to them.

Comments posted by RaVeN from United States, February 18, 2004:
Burn burns great and plays flawlessly. The only coasters I created, about 8 out of 50, was during the burning process. Never created a coaster, after a DVD was burnt successfully. Plays flawlessly on my APEX and PS2.

Comments posted by noone@here.com from United States, January 18, 2004:
Ok, I tried to be cheap and lost this experiement. Save your self the money and avoid these. Spend a little more money on something decent. Tried 4x and 2x with the latest firmware and other hacked herries 1.08v2 firmeware. Only got 1 to burn (with herries) without data errors out of 8. At that price rate, buy real media.

Comments posted by Ron from Other, January 07, 2004:
I'm having mixed results, maybe about 50% success rate? Failures include freezes, skips, pixellation, and failure to load at all. Not recommended at all, especially for distribution.

Comments posted by Kevin from Other, December 30, 2003:
Works good on Pioneer 104/A04 1.4 firmware of course since this is really 4x media. Not great but good compared to Ritek G03 or Princo 4x but a great bargain. Works flawless on PS2 and all my DVD players.

Actually, this is not a bad media after all. After burning (with Optorite DD0203, FW 2.23) for about 25 discs, all perfect burns and only 1 bad playback due to some goo mark on the burning surface. I can happily report that this cheap media is not bad at all for $.59/disc. I used to have some pixilations with my older DVD players but not with my PC DVD players. That led me to believe that my older DVD players could not handle the recordable discs very well. So I went out and got 3 new DVD players to test my theory: Apex AD-1225, Daewoo DVD-P480 and Kawasaki SVP500 and they all play the Sonic DVD-Rs(burnt at 2X) perfectly without any pixilation error as with my older players (Apex AD-600A, Pana A110, GoVideo DVR4200).

Just updated my Optorite to FW 2.25 and noticed nothing new, still good burn. What did Optorite fix in FW 2.25?

Comments posted by JL from Other, November 19, 2003:
very cheaply made, thin & flexible. Recording surface appears to be very smooth & even. Burned fine at 1X & 2X with Optorite DD0203, however, recordings at 2X will play back with several (5-8) pixilation glitchs (but no freezes). 1X recordings seems to be better (1-2 glitches). So you have it, this media is cheap & not meant for long-term storage videos like home movies. TV episodes that you want to watch a few times is ok for this cheap media :)

Comments posted by Grant from Other, November 17, 2003:
In almost EVERY case, disc became unreadable from ~3.0GB and up, in other words, DVD backups had video quality that became unacceptable after about 1.2 hrs of play. On HDD, ripped DVD data played back fine, so errors occurred during burn process, thanks to poor media.